Bonsai Expands TensorFlow Support with Gears, Extending Functionality of AI Platform for Enterprises Building Industrial Applications

Berkeley, CA and New York, NY – June 27, 2017 – Today at the O'Reilly AI Conference, Bonsai, provider of an AI platform that empowers enterprises to build and deploy intelligent systems, released Gears, a top feature requested by customers in the Bonsai Early Access Program. Gears further extends the value of Bonsai to data scientists, providing them with a tool to manage, deploy and scale previously developed machine learning models, including those built with TensorFlow, within the Bonsai Platform.

Bringing together state-of-the-art techniques in machine teaching and machine learning, Bonsai provides enterprises with the tools to more efficiently build application-specific AI models that increase the automation and operational efficiency of industrial systems including robotics, manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, energy and utilities.

Using Gears, data scientists can now incorporate existing prediction and perception models, into Bonsai’s AI Platform. In addition to extending the functionality available for programming intelligent control and decision support systems, Gears benefits enterprises by enabling greater collaboration in the development process across programmers, subject matter experts and data scientists.

“We are seeing accelerating interest from enterprises looking to program AI across a diverse range of industrial systems. Customers want to know that we can support their existing AI models, while extending functionality as needed to address unique and emerging application requirements,” said Mark Hammond, co-founder and CEO of Bonsai. “The development of Gears is a direct response to this request and in complete alignment with our vision to provide development teams with the complete toolset required to build intelligence into every hardware and software application.”

"Applying machine learning to enterprise use cases is always about more than just one team or technology, and this is particularly true in industrial applications that require deep involvement from a variety of groups," said Stephen O'Grady, Principal Analyst with RedMonk. "With Gears, Bonsai's looking to make existing models embeddable into its AI platform to make it more tightly connected to business needs and to open it to wider numbers of contributors."

Bonsai offers an AI platform that empowers enterprises to build and deploy intelligent systems. By completely automating the management of complex machine learning libraries and algorithms, Bonsai enables enterprises to program AI models that improve system control and enhance real-time decision support. Businesses use these models today to increase automation and improve operational efficiency of industrial systems including robotics, manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, energy and utilities. Based in Berkeley, CA, Bonsai is backed by leading investors including NEA, Microsoft Ventures, ABB, Samsung NEXT and Siemens. To learn more, please visit: https://bons.ai/ or follow on Twitter @BonsaiAI.